Will remove consumer's name from mass mailing list upon written request. Consumer must notify mailer by letter to stop selling his or name to other companies. Send label from unwanted mailing to Direct Marketing Association with letter requesting that name be removed from all mailing lists. They discontinued the Consumer Line complaint handling service.

If a national fund raising organization continues to solicit funds after request to remove consumer's name, consumer should contact the Better Business (BBB). The BBB will forward a letter to the fund raising organization and ask it to comply with consumer's request. Local fund raising contacts to consumer may referred to local BBB.

To stop unwanted mailing of pornographic or sexually explicit mail to a consumer's address, the consumer should request a Postal Service Form 2201 (available at local post office). Filling out this form will keep a consumer's name off mailing list for 5 years; after that time it must be renewed. Thirty days after a consumer's name has been added to the Postal Service Reference List, any mailer who sends the consumer sexually oriented advertisements may be subject to civil and criminal sanctions. (Crime Tip Sheet number 43)